Subversion 1.4
Subversion 1.4 has been released, and it looks as though the upgrade should be entirely painless.
Working Copy Improvements
I did notice that, with Subversion 1.3, it took longer than I’d
have liked to check out working copies containing many tens of
thousands of files; the reason being the number of files created and
cached in the hidden .svn directories.
The release notes for Subversion 1.4 claim:
Huge working-copy performance improvements.
which later gets elaborated on:
The new working copy format allows the client to more quickly search a working copy, detect file modifications, manage property metadata, and deal with large files. The overall disk footprint is smaller as well, with fewer inodes being used.
This looks very promising.
Svnsync
I also note the apearance of svnsync, “a new repository mirroring
tool”, which looks as if it will supercede a lot of home-brewed backup
scripts, as well as making my
notes
on mirroring a Subversion repository incomplete.
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